We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
